[joshiemac25]

2 Wheeler,

I work at SUNY Potsdam up here and have run into the problem if I am planning to go shooting during lunch or am traveling after work to go to the range or hunting. At SUNY Potsdam, we (as employees, and our students also) are allowed to store long guns and ammo at our University Police Department, but no handguns.

When I ran into this problem most recently (needed to leave directly from work to get to a defensive pistol class I was attending) I stopped in to talk to our Chief of Police at the University (who recently retired from being the Chief of Police in the Village of Potsdam). He told me to swing into the Potsdam Police Department and that I could leave my pistol with them. Not wanting to surprise the department by walking in with my pistol I called the day before to ask to make sure and to find out how they wanted it. The dispatcher told me a lockable container, disassembled (slide off of frame), unlocked until they checked it. I showed up the next day, showed the gun, locked the case and signed it in. Showed up at lunch, signed it out and was on my way. Shortly after that, I repeated this and they didn't require it to be disassembled as long as I could show empty. So call before hand and you should be all set.

Potsdam Police Dept. -- Potsdam, NY

 

[joshiemac25]

Call ahead to the Campus Police, they may be able to help you. It is more likely as a SUNY school that IF they allow firearms on campus, it will be long guns only and it will be required that you make a direct path from off campus to the police department, log the weapon in, then when you sign it out be ready to get directly off of campus. I believe there is a SUNY policy that does not allow firearms on campuses except if they are granted permission from the president of the institution. I am uncertain how some SUNY schools are able to allow any firearms on their campuses at all with how ridiculous some of the policies are relating to firearms.

If you do end up storing any firearms on campus, do not expect to be able to come and go freely to the office, as they will help as soon as they can, but signing a weapon in or out of the armory will fall lower in priority to almost all other things. Try to get to know a few of the officers and the more they know you the better a chance you have of being helped more.

 

[joshiemac25]

Glad to hear it worked out for you!!!